Senior TechOps Engineer

Galway

3 weeks ago

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Senior TechOps Engineer

Galway Based

Contract- Minimum 6 months

As a senior member of the TechOps SRE team, you'll work closely with our engineering partners to help enable and drive initiatives from design to implementation. Our highly available multi-region Kubernetes (AWS EKS) environments are best-in-class and central to our enterprise-grade infrastructure strategy. These growing environments currently support numerous mission-critical workloads. In this exciting role, you'll have the opportunity to further develop and refine your skills, collaborate across numerous Fidelity teams, and continue to grow in a fun, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment. This is a phenomenal opportunity to have a direct impact on the emerging strategies of our infrastructure and deployments, while at the same time, helping enable the expansion of our business.

The Skills and Expertise You Bring

5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
Experience building and deploying Docker images
Experience migrating applications from other container orchestration solutions (such as ECS) to Kubernetes preferably on EKS
Production experience running Kubernetes workloads ideally on AWS EKS
Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on AWS EKS
Experience with Confluent or Kafka
Experience creating and deploying Helm charts & libraries
Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintaining declarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries
Experience with monitoring tools e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog & Splunk Cloud
Proficiency with UNIX operating systems and shell scripting
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), having managed services and applications in a large AWS cross-account environment using IAM and federated SSO
Experience crafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities using tools like Datadog and Splunk
Ability to communicate at all levels with track record of strong written and verbal communications
See problems as opportunities to automate
Ability to work independently with minimal direction
Drive and champion the overall design of highly available, secure, scalable microservices-based applications in AWS
Track record of providing technical leadership to strong teams of Site Reliability Engineers / Cloud Engineers
Experience with configuring and deploying resilient infrastructure in multiple regions and multiple availability zones
Work multi-functionally with other organizations and collaborate with our risk, product and engineering team leaders
Leading the initiative to craft and deploy our applications to the cloud
Promoting a DevOps mentality, providing mentorship and establishing development standard methodologies for AWS infrastructure-as-code
Championing automation tools to improve software delivery and reduce risk
Production experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC), Terraform preferred
Programming experience, e.g., Python preferred
Experience with distributed version control systems, Git preferred
Experience with Apache or Confluent Kafka a plus
Experience with the agile software development lifecycle and Kanban preferred
Experience with CDN Providers e.g., Akamai preferred

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